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[Unregistered 015]

I'm just corious about how many native English speakers are here at trap17, and where are they from? Where are you from if it is not your native languge? How did you learn it?

By the way, I'm from Bosnia, and I speak Bosnian (serbian, and croatian too, since it's just a variation of the same old serbo-croatian language spoken in ex-yu). I learned English in school and by using computer

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Moving from General Talk to Life Talk > Regional. Credit still counts.

Edited by BuffaloHELP, 24 August 2005 - 05:28 PM.

[sxyloverboy]

Hm i'm half Spanish and half german but i can speak english as well and if it was my native language. This is because when i was 6 i moved with my family to indonesia and went to the international school there. since then ive been speaking english in school for 9 years now. I also speak Spanish because my dad is spanish, German because my mom is german and a bit of french because im doing it in school since about 3 years.

Bah the grammar in that is probably way of but that happens when i have to many things in my head.

[mayank]

well, English is not my native language, my native language is Hindi as I am from INDIA. I learnt English in school and thats a diff. thing that any language can't be learnt completely in few years...it needs lot of time and practise to master any language....and I am still learning it.

[Dragonfly]

English is the second language for me and this can be easily spotted in many of my writings and in my conversations with friends and foes alike. And I don't feel shy or ashamed of the same. As long as I can convey what I wanted others to know and if they can understand me that is all I needed. Though French seems to be more well structured and disciplined in grammer, English is more fun to learn.

[sonorama]

Well, English is not my mother's language, and sometimes I am a bit affraid of making mistakes, i mean, the big ones My primary language is Spanish, but I guess most of the people all over the world know English much better than Spanish. Actually, I was reading somewhere that Spanish language is getting stronger. Everyday there are more people interested on learning this language

Cheers!

[biscuitrat]

Technically, English is my second language, but it's the one that I learned first. My mother-tongue is Tamil, which I spoke fluently until I was about two and went to preschool. I've forgetten most of my language now and it makes me kind of sad :/

[Sprnknwn]

English is my second language... well, I guess i must say it´s my third language indeed. I´m from the Basque Country (legally Spain, someones don´t like it though) and my native language is spanish but I also know the basque language, called euskera.

Anyway I think I know more english. I studied it on school but I think I´ve learned it for the most part listening rock music and using computers. It´s easy to learn. I´m also learning german right now... it´s very funny.

[epox]

estoy mamado de hablar en ingles, yo lo q se hablar es epañol, y esque si nosotros los hispanos podemos hablar ingles, entonces porque ellos no hablan español, es que les queda muy dificil!!!

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Edited by BuffaloHELP, 25 August 2005 - 07:46 AM.

[AbstracT]

i guess you could say english is neither my first or second language since I learned both at around the same time. I spoke spanish at home and english at school....and its because we're puerto rican

[Unregistered 015]

There seems to be a lot of spanish speakers here

[Salman Syed]

I am from pakistan n i know english actually it is tought in most of our schools as its the international language

ciroxyz, on Aug 24 2005, 07:04 PM, said:

I'm just corious about how many native English speakers are here at trap17, and where are they from? Where are you from if it is not your native languge? How did you learn it?

By the way, I'm from Bosnia, and I speak Bosnian (serbian, and croatian too, since it's just a variation of the same old serbo-croatian language spoken in ex-yu). I learned English in school and by using computer

Notice from BuffaloHELP:

Moving from General Talk to Life Talk > Regional. Credit still counts.

[CinnamorollTK]

English was my second language when I was small. Then they gave me a test after 6 months of being in the US. It stated that my second language was Spanish after living in the US for so little time.

[etycto]

im from haity i speack kreol,french, and english im also learning spanish
learning english took me about three months or so wen i came to the US i knew no english exeot (F.U.) i was in fourth grade by fifth i waz pretty good at least better than befor it waz pretty esy in my opinion

[AnkitGoswami]

I guess English is my second language as I think in Hindi but I prefer writing in English (I hated Hindi in school).

[salamangkero]

I am a Filipino. If you don't know what that is... it's a person from the Republic of the Philippines.

I usually talk easily using either English or Filipino so I suppose you could say it's a second language to me, in the sense that it's not my native language and I'm using it.

However, when it comes to writing, I use the English language more than Filipino.

[csp4.0]

English is my second language, my first is Mandarin. I hate writing in mandarin (no spelling a word is a word you can't spell it out).

[petsecia]

English is only my 3rd language. My first language is portuguese. My second language is french. And now I'm trying to learn english. I can read and understand, but to speak and to write is harder... But I'm trying...

[de4thpr00f]

Hi i'm from Portugal, we speak portuguese in here =P, i can speak portuguese, italian, spanish, french (not to much) and english. i learned english at school but i apply it much more over internet. And i think it's a basic language compared to french or portuguese. But at the same time it can be hard to express yourself.

Greetz
~
João Lopes

[bthaxor]

well, i was born in bulgaria, but we moved to australia when i was just four. i have no idea how, but when i began school at the age of six, my english was quite fluent.

right now, i probably speak english better than most people actually born in australia.

at home, we still speak bulgarian. no english.

i guess a person's ability to talk a language comes from their surroundings: if they talk to other people etc. for me, the main place where i learn english, and the only place where i speak english, is school.

to me, english is a more prominent language than bulgarian, however technically it is a second language because my native language is bulgarian.

however, when i write it is always in english. i can neither read nor write in bulgarian.

Edited by bthaxor, 03 December 2007 - 09:38 PM.

[Liam_CF]

English is my first language. When I first joined trap17, I was amazed at the number of people who did not speak english natively. You can always tell when they are, not because it is wrong, but because it is structured differently and different words are used.

However, I can always (99% of the time) understand what they're saying, this is in no way a criticism.

[jimmyln2004]

My parents are from China, but I am born in Singapore, so I can be considered to be a native Chinese speaker. However, being in Singapore, everything is taught/explained/written/whatever in English, so I guess I use English as my first language.

Edited by jimmyln2004, 11 December 2007 - 02:37 AM.

[leeindia]

I am from India and in my part of the world Hindi is the most prominent language
Have studied English in my school from the beginning and as a result of all the hard work, I can say now that English is my second language

[Strikee]

English in my case , just as many people around here is my second language. I've been "confrunting" myself with it since I was in kindergarden.. ) and been evolving my skills ever since. I had the pleasure to visit U.K a few months ago and I was surprised how beautiful their accent was , not as the normal American accent we see everyday in the movies. Their accent makes them seem very smart (very nice people though , talking to them is always a pleasure).
I'm curious about what native English speakers think about of our way of expressing ourselfs in their language and wether we sound funny , weird or some other way.
A contest would be interesting where each contestant could write a story or something like that , in English of course , others could vote and we could find our most fluent non-english , english speaker )
Since this is a huge comunity it could get pretty fun.
Edit: I'm from Romania , I forgot to mention.

Edited by Strikee, 18 September 2010 - 02:32 AM.